Putin’s hand-picked media official sounds remarkably like Donald Trump on women. By Mary Papenfuss The HuffPost (10/6/18) Just like President Donald Trump, the Kremlin-owned media in Russia are wild about Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh. And their chief propagandist has lashed “malignant feminism” in America for challenging Kavanaugh’s confirmation. Russian TV pundit and media official Dmitry Kiselyov, chosen for his role by Russian President Vladimir Putin, earlier this week dismissed the sexual assault accusation against Kavanaugh by research psychologist Christine Blasey Ford as “like a joke.” Kiselyov said Kavanaugh’s confirmation was held up by “malignant feminism,” which he blasted as a “tool…

October 12th – 14th, 2018 Pleasant Ridge Waldorf School 431 E. Court Street Viroqua, WI In community life we learn consciously and unconsciously from each other; and we need to be able to elicit the individuality in the other. Inner work can provide accessible insights into the workings of the human soul, outlines its relationship to the spiritual life, and shows the way to develop and strengthen our inner capacities through practical exercises, experience, and deep understanding. This weekend will focus on how to perceive, support and elicit the true nature of the individual human being from childhood to adulthood….

Two Words Lindsey: Merrick. Garland. Link to 30-Second Video and Twitter Responses ‘Angrier, loopier and more belligerent’: Conservative Columnist Warns How Much Worse GOP Will Get After Midterms — “Perhaps instead of ideology or even experience, candidates for spots in any branch of government, at any level, should be assessed on temperament. Without cooler heads in elected and appointed offices, our descent into rage, extremism and meanness will continue,” she continued. “Government by screeching bullies is not a political system any of us should desire.” … Read the Rest (Commoner Call cartoon by Mark L. Taylor, 2018. Open source and free…

Women of Wisconsin… Please join me in launching the Women for Tony Network  I have met so many women who are enthusiastic about my husband’s candidacy for Governor, and the question I keep hearing again and again is “How can I help?”   Well, I have one easy, but very meaningful way.   Will you please join me in adding your name to the list of women who publicly support Tony Evers and become a founding member of our Women for Tony Network?   Yes, Kathy, Sign me up!   Even if you are helping the campaign in other ways,…

  NPR (9/30/18) NPR’s Lulu Garcia-Navarro speaks with Casey Gerald, co-founder of MBAs Across America, about his memoir There Will Be No Miracles Here, on the illusions behind success and the American dream. Link to 6-Minute Audio

  By Jake Johnson Common Dreams (9/28/18) With the nation’s attention rightly transfixed by the Senate GOP’s monstrous efforts to ram through a Supreme Court nominee who has been credibly accused by multiple women of sexual assault, House Republicans on Friday voted overwhelmingly to approve another $3 trillion in tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans just weeks before the November midterms. “Today the GOP doubled down on last year’s giveaway to the donor class known as the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act,” Morris Pearl, chair of the Patriotic Millionaires, said in a statement following the 220-191 vote. “Tax Cuts 2.0 gives nearly $3 trillion…

  By Daniel Moritz-Rabson Newsweek (9/28/18) The Pentagon is expected to spend more than $111 billion in three months as it rushes to use the remainder of its $700-billion budget before the end of the 2018 fiscal year on September 30, Defense One reported. As of early August, the Defense Department had only allocated contracts worth $177 billion out of an expected $574 billion in discretionary spending, the outlet said, citing analysis by The Pulse. “The spending spree is the product of the omnibus budget agreement signed six months late in March coupled with funding increases of $80 billion for defense,” Defense One reported. “The shortened time…

Kavanaugh’s spoiled, entitled, selfish, persecuted, angry Frat Rat rant was just shy of truly insane…and totally disqualifies this A-Hole from any civil service position…much less the throne and influence of a lifetime Supreme Court post! Gary Ebben Chicago, Ill.

  By Trita Parsi Middle East Eye (9/22/18) Iran has been hit by yet another terrorist attack. At least 29 people were killed in the southwestern city of Ahvaz when gunmen opened fire on a crowd watching a military parade on Iran’s equivalent of Memorial Day. But unlike previous terror attacks, this one may spark a much larger regional conflagration – involving not just regional rivals Saudi Arabia and Iran, but also the United States. In fact, it may have been designed to trigger just that. The terrorist attack, which was first claimed by an Arab separatist group with alleged…

  Common Dreams Staff (9/24/18) While crucial questions remain about exactly how a White House meeting between Trump administration officials and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein will play out on Monday, progressive groups are reminding the nation that if Rosenstein is fired there’s a plan to take to the streets in massive numbers. “You know those signs that say ‘In case of emergency, break glass?’” wrote The Atlantic‘s David Frum after news broke that Rosenstein had been summoned to the White House, with multiple news stories reporting that his ouster was likely imminent. “This is that emergency.” As Common Dreams has previously reported, progressive advocacy…

In the United States it is parking lots instead of homes. VICE News (9/6/18) There is a shortage of affordable housing in every state in the country, but it’s especially bad in California — where there’s only one affordable housing unit for every five extremely low income households. The gap is not only pushing more and more people out onto the streets—it’s also creating a new, fast-growing, and hidden class of homelessness: People who in the past would have been able to afford a room or apartment but now live in their cars by necessity. Danielle Williams is one of…